Season 6 ladder map updates - Page 31

On February 14 2012 08:32 StarcraftNerd1547 wrote:
Most important question, will the flying shark remain?

On February 14 2012 19:22 d3y wrote:
Played the new Maps yesterday. I realy like them Can't wait for Season 6. Hope it gonna start this evening in EU

On February 14 2012 20:04 r3SpaVVn wrote:


It should start at approxymately 11am CET (GMT +1) tomorrow.

On February 14 2012 20:18 d3y wrote:


I thought it should start today everywhere?!? Damn that sucks :'(

On February 14 2012 10:14 StarscreamG1 wrote:
Team maps, any change?

On February 14 2012 20:20 Rannasha wrote:


New seasons typically start when Blizzard does their Battle.net / WoW maintenance. For the NA area that's early morning on tuesday (local time), for EU it's early morning on wednesday (local time).

On February 12 2012 07:13 Nancial wrote:
fuck my life, why remove xelnaga... I'd seriously love to have one map that would stay with the game forever, for like 6-7 years without being replaced. hoped it would be xelnaga
i just hope they release wc4 sooner so i can forget about this fucking disappointing sc2 game where everyone wants their fucking macro games on huge maps... srsly ((

On February 12 2012 08:18 Zaphid wrote:
Just wait until they remove Metalopolis man ^^
XNC wasn't even in beta, compared to metal it's rather young map.

On February 15 2012 18:35 Xapti wrote:
I heard various people say Xel'naga wasn't a good map for Zerg (and I guess at one point really early on I had a bad win-rate on it for ZvP too, but didn't check recently), but I personally liked the map a lot regardless. I'd rather have a map like Shattered temple thrown out, not only for it's 4 spawning positions, but it has rather imbalanced spawn location configurations.

It (XNC) sorta reminded me of Destination from Brood War. I like maps with only 2-3 spawn points because otherwise the games get more random and less skill-based.

At least the two replacement maps are 2-position, that's actually really good (for my personal reference at least). I'm sure I could like one or both of the maps just as much as Xelnaga Caverns (and maybe get a better win-rate regardless), even though I'm sick of closed-natural maps. It's forcing too much of a 1-way play style with these maps that have closed naturals — I guess it did have issues though — FFE is very difficult (or impossible?) to hold vs strong offensive builds, and zergs have considerable trouble defending open naturals too.
In fact with Arid gone, there are no more maps with open naturals? Is there some kind of agreement that protoss needs to FFE to win or something? If anything, I find most of the protosses who FFE seem to complain more that they have no viable options.


Yeah I agree. XNC can definitely run some serious macro games too though — it's not like any race is forced to 2 base or 3 base or all-in.

I'd rather see metalopolis drop, just because blizzard never chose to fix the damn close positions. Same thing with Shattered temple. They're both old map with 4 spawns and lame close positions.

On February 10 2012 17:09 masterbreti wrote:
guess I know what maps to veto now. Cloud kingdom is a horrible map. Have no clue why they didn't put a good GSL map in there instead of Cloud Kingdom. I enjoyed Xel Naga though, even though its old, still was a solid map.